Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a CityRoutledge, 3 juli 2013 - 200 sidor To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political order. Locally and globally, the city exists by virtue of complicated patterns of government and self-government, prompted by proximate diversity. A multiplicity of authorities in different registers is typical. Sovereignty, although often claimed, is infinitely deferred. What emerges by virtue of self-organization is not susceptible to control by any central authority, and so we are impelled to engage politically in a world that does not match our expectations of sovereignty. How then are we are to engage realistically and creatively? We have to begin from where we are if we are to understand the possibilities. Building on traditions of political and urban theory in order to advance a new interpretation of the role of cities/urbanism in contemporary political life, this work will be of great interest to scholars of political theory and urban theory, international relations theory and international relations. |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 66
... Thought, Canadian Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, BC Political Studies Association, and American Association of Geographers. Acknowledgements.
Seeing Like a City Warren Magnusson. Association, BC Political Studies Association, and American Association of Geographers. Routledge's anonymous reviewers made many helpful suggestions that guided me in my final round of revisions. The ...
... America, South Africa, Eastern Europe, and (not least) the United States.4 It is fair to say that anyone who recoils from the poverty, injustice, waste, and violence of our contemporary world, and who sees that these ills are effects of ...
... America are the latest iterations of something that has been going on for a very long time, something that urbanists in Europe and North America have been writing about at least since the midnineteenth century (Parker 2004). It is not ...
... American ratherthan the European, because it is more suggestive of what emerges throughurbanism as such. In Chapter 3 and 4, I deal more directly with some of the literature onwhich we might draw in developing a political ontology of ...
Innehåll
Ontologies of the political | |
Politics of urbanism as a way of life | |
The art of government | |
Seeing like a state seeing like a city | |
Oikos nomos logos | |
From local selfgovernment to politics | |
otherwise than sovereign | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |